Babaevo

Babaevo is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Babaevsky district of Vologda region. The city is located within the Mologo-Sheksninskaya lowland, on the banks of the Kolp River (Volga basin), 246 km west of Vologda.

According to legend, the village of Babaevo was founded in 1460 by a peasant named Babai.

In 1882, a metallurgical plant was built here, which produced telegraph wires, nails and hooks. The settlement was granted city status in 1925. Railway station on the line Vologda - St. Petersburg.

The population of the city is declining: according to the All-Union population census of the USSR in 1989 - 14,211 people according to the All-Russian population census of 2002 - 12,604 people in 2005 - 12.4 thousand people. 2006 - 12.3 thousand people. in 2017 - 11 493 people.

Attractions: Monument to Babayev soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War; Locomotive, installed in honor of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the railway junction. Babaevo (2005).

Nature Monument: Stone Mountain.

Near Babaevo is the ancient village of Borisovo-Sudskoye with noble estates Kachalov, Pushtorsky, Dolgovo-Saburov.